I loved her with all my heart – Husband who ‘murd£red’ his former beauty queen wife tells court
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A husband accused of murdring his former beauty queen wife, told a court he ‘loved her’ and regretted k!lling her. Marc Rieben, 43, who is on trial in Switzerland, is said to have used a jigsaw tool, a knife, and garden shears on Kristina Joksimovic’s body before ‘pureeing’ her remains in a blender. According to Mail Online, the father of two, a five and six-year-old, is charged with murdering his then 38-year-old wife and desecration of the dead. He faces life in prison if found guilty.Rieben was followed into the courtroom by two of his three-person legal team, Christina Von Wartburg and Sina Selman, this morning. Following a break in proceedings, the judge ruled no further defence witnesses could be called as they were not present at the time and would have no relevance. Addressing the court, Rieben fought back tears as he claimed he ‘loved’ Kristina and her death was ‘an accident’, although he admitted grabbing her by the throat. He said: ‘I have caused my family immeasurable suffering. Why? Why did I fail? Why couldn’t I prevent it? Why couldn’t I stop her from dying at my hands? I loved my wife with all my heart and believed in a future together.’It haunts me day and night. What I did is absolutely unforgivable, and I take full responsibility. I deeply regret it, and I apologise.’ He also revealed that, as a sign of his remorse, he had paid his two children and Kristina’s parents 94,218. ‘It would be wonderful if you could use it to do something that brings some lightness into your lives,’ he said in front of the court. The court asked Rieben why the monetary offer was only being made today, following two years of proceedings. The husband responded: ‘Because this is the first opportunity I’ll have to see the bereaved. This offer is made regardless of what the court decides. I simply want to show my support. It’s a gesture. ‘Human lives cannot be replaced; I can only offer my sympathy,’ he continued.’I would like to express my deepest sympathy to all those affected for their suffering. [Kristina] is gone. Her cool zest for life, her radiant smile simply gone. The world has collapsed’. Speaking of the time leading up to Kristina’s gruesome death, he explained that although ‘the arguments were the main foucs’, people should not forget ‘we had a passion’. He said he ‘admired’ his wife and celebrated her ‘entrepreneurial success and her ambitions’. Continuing, Rieben revealed that the pair had been attending couples counselling since 2018, after only being married since 2017, and ‘were ready to work on ourselves’. In his account, he recalled: ‘In this bar in 2016, we agreed that we would go through everything together. I told her it wouldn’t be easy. But we agreed: “We’re going all in”.’ Rieben explained that he was in solitary confinement and that he was allowed to write to his children and see his parents, but he added: ‘One day I would like to play with my children again.’The motive for the k!lling was Rieben’s refusal to divorce Kristina, and it goes on to detail his ‘blatant, cold-hearted and ruthless contempt for life’, an indictment copy revealed. It also alleges how successful businessman Rieben grabbed his wife by the neck, pushed her against a wall, and choked her using a ‘ribbon-like’ device around her neck. Prosecutors claim he also punched and kicked Kristina as he strangled her ‘perfidiously, cruelly and in cold blood’ with his victim suffering an ‘agonising’ death. He is then said to have set about disposing of her body in the underground laundry room of the couple’s home using the jigsaw, garden shears, knife and then ultimately the blender. According to the indictment, while disposing of her body, he is also said to have removed her uterus, and because of the chilling way he disposed of the corpse, the unusual charge of desecration of the dead has been added. The indictment from the prosecution adds that Rieben acted ‘knowingly and intentionally, in full awareness and from a selfish attitude and mindset characterised by a need for control, resentment, revenge and massive anger’. Because of strict Swiss privacy laws, Rieben is being referred to in local media coverage as Thomas L, while Kristina – a former Miss Switzerland finalist – is Ivana L. The trial is expected to last all week, and a verdict is expected on May 13.The post I loved her with all my heart – Husband who ‘murdred’ his former beauty queen wife tells court appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.
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